starved
adj1
Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
2
Broadly Deprived of nourishment or of something vital.
- Alas poore hart, that kiſſe is comfortleſſe, / As frozen vvater to a ſtarued ſnake.c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature F3, recto:
3
Colloquial, Emphatic, Excessive Extremely hungry.
- I’m starved! I haven’t eaten since breakfast.
- She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 46:
- Derived terms
- nonstarved, prestarved, semistarved, starvedly, unstarved